Motivated by insufficient fiscal discipline in democracy, we introduce and examine “Catenarian Discipline Rules”. An office-holder decides in each period whether to use available resources for his/her own personal consumption or for providing public goods for the population. In the unique...

This paper revisits the conventional but unproven wisdom that voters penalize governments for adopting fiscal austerity in a sample of advanced economies. We consider the composition of the austerity package and the economic manifesto of the implementing government and find that austerity...

We study the impact of web search personalization on ideological segregation in search results. We deploy 150 synthetic internet users with randomized partisan preferences across 25 US cities. These users generate authentic browsing histories and are active during the US 2020 election and its...